MEMS. Fatigue, life prediction. Pressure vessels. Thermal stresses. Finite element modelling.

Topics

• Computational stress analysis of microfilters.
• Structural optimization of micromechanical devices.
• Stress analysis of pressure vessels at elevated temperature (creep).
• Fatigue calculation by the finite element method.
• Life prediction by deterministic and probabilistic methods.
• Numerical and analytical calculation of residual stresses in thermally loaded shrink fits.
• Finite element simulation of transient loading in elastic-plastic problems.